Some days in to a hearing, a stately elect of inquiry (RCI) in Sabah upon a unusual race blast in this "Nation in Malaysia", has non-stop a Pandora's Box. But will there be goal left as in a mythical Pandora's Box when it was eventually shut, or will all ruin break loose? In 2005, it was estimated which Sabah had a race of 3.2 million, of which usually 1.5 million were locals.
The many unfortunate underline of a revelations during a RCI is either a Sabah governments given 1994 have been legitimate.
No choosing is free of irregularities as well as even fraud. The courts have celebrated this time as well as again, not usually in this nation though elsewhere around a world, as well as have resisted a temptation to open a floodgates. They know where to pull a line.
The element timeless in law as a litmus exam is either electoral rascal was perpetuated to an border which affected a outcome. In which case, a choosing has to be ruled zero as well as void or a so-called hero nude of a results as well as a seat handed to his rival or nearest rival.
Many people still recollect Judge Harun Hashim declaring Umno wrong in a wake of a party's disputed 1987 presidential elections which Mahathir Mohamad won by 43 votes in a face of a stiff plea by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. The justice detected which 30 bootleg branches had voted for Mahathir.
Had a bootleg branches voted for Razaleigh, it would not have been probable for a justice to declare Umno wrong given a ineligible votes did not repudiate Mahathir victory.
The decider could have discounted a bootleg votes as well as handed a ! presiden cy to Razaleigh (left). But for reasons most appropriate well well known to him, he handed Mahathir victory by a backdoor.
The male went upon to set up Umno Baru which disallowed a entrance of Razaleigh as well as his supporters, hijacked a aged Umno's MPs, hijacked a chairpersonship of a Barisan Nasional (BN) after Umno Baru was admitted as a member by a coalition, as well as hijacked a government.
Razaleigh was a budding apportion Malaysia never had. Mahathir became a budding apportion who never was.
In Sabah, it appears which MyKads were released to bootleg immigrants for a purpose of choosing by casting votes in a name of purebred electorate who were not well well known to vote. That's one side of a design rising during a ongoing RCI hearing.
Early bird catches a worm
It's not mostly which things went smoothly. Every election, a internal media carry complaints from electorate who lay which they were not allowed to vote upon a drift which they had already voted initial thing in a morning.
The RCI completes a puzzle. Someone, it seems, had voted upon behalf of a depressed voters.
If bootleg immigrants voted upon behalf of adults purebred in a electoral rolls, they could be pulling off a same fraud upon behalf of adults who had not purebred as voters. There's zero to forestall an bootleg registering as a voter with a MyKad underneath a name of an unregistered voter.
Kota Kinabalu Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) arch Christina Liew had time as well as again raised a issue of a defunct upon a electoral rolls, quite a number some-more than 100 years old, choosing by casting votes in every election, though to no avail. The Election Commission (EC) brazenly spoken a Malaysian electoral rolls as a cleanest in a universe t! hough a fragment of evidence.
The logistics show which a electoral fraud could easily be perpetuated in seats with a tiny number of purebred electorate as well as seats which could go either way.
The allegedly rampant distribution of MyKads in Sabah could not be all about voting.
The RCI heard which over 80,000 refugees from a Philippines were released MyKads as well as another 36,000 have been upon a watchful list. This is a bizarre growth considering which Malaysia is not a signatory to a UN Convention upon Refugees as well as does not recognize refugees though terms them as mercantile migrants. In which case, what's a legal basis upon which a refugees were recognized as Malaysians?
Did a refugees run a gauntlet of securing entrance permits with current transport documents, prior to graduating to temporary proprietor status, permanent proprietor standing as well as naturalisation?
They could not have turn adults underneath operation of law or registration. It's not probable to secure entrance permits though current transport papers. The refugees, having fled a Philippines with ju! st a sh! irts upon their backs, could not have been carrying current transport writings which, in any case, cost an arm as well as a leg behind home.
Mahathir's belated acknowledgment which he gave MyKads to Filipino refugees has serve muddied a waters. Hitherto, he had denied which there were any serious problems with a distribution of MyKads in Sabah.
Sabahans will not accept a distribution of MyKads to a refugees by a federal government. Every Sabahan knows which foreigners in their nation can usually acquire MyKads upon a recommendation of a state supervision which must also be a initiating party. Sabah, similar to Sarawak, cannot be lumped together in a same category! as a st ates in a peninsula which participated in Malaysia in a collective as Malaya.
Mahathir's take upon a Filipino refugees appears to be a red herring. The dimension of a MyKad materialisation in Sabah is far larger than a issue of refugees.
The materialisation of 'twice-born'
Many Indian sub-continentals too, similar to other bootleg immigrants in Sabah, possess MyKads underneath a "twice-born" phenomenon.
The cases in justice of Indian restaurant keeper Majid Kani as well as Pakistani runner seller Salman Majid - they can be Googled - most appropriate illustrate a twice innate materialisation in Sabah.
Majid Kani was innate in Tamil Nadu, India but! done out! a statutory declaration (SD) swearing which he was innate in Papar, along a west seashore of Sabah. He, along with 100 Indian sub-continentals, were released MyKads upon a strength of their SDs as well as subsequently obtained Malaysian passports. The figure 100 was referred to by Majid himself in Court.
The authorities nabbed him as well as hauled him to justice for allegedly obtaining Malaysian personal documents fraudulently. Apparently, a powers-that-be allegedly detected which he allegedly voted for a opposition, not once though twice.
Salman in his SD claimed which he was innate in Ranau, Sabah. The rest of his story appears to mirror Majid's.
Salman was nabbed by Immigration in Sepang after they were convinced which he did not sound Malaysian enough. There were gaping holes in his story.
Salman was freed by a justice after a Immigration Department as well as a National Registration Department declined, in a change of heart, to yield a justice with a required proof which Salman was a Pakistani masquerading as a Malaysian. Former Sabah arch apportion Harris Salleh testified in justice upon Salman's behalf which "he (Salman) had regularly been a constant BN supporter who voted for a statute coalition".
Most of a complaint Indonesian
Those i! n a know swear which a bulk of a MyKads in a hands of bootleg immigrants as well as other foreigners have been held by Indonesians who keep a low profile in a plantations. However, it's a Filipinos as well as Indian sub-continentals who hog a newspapers headlines for all a wrong reasons.
Foreigners have been authorised to acquire c! itizenshi! p in Malaysia though they would have to comply with a applicable supplies in a federal constitution.
If what is being pronounced during a on-going RCI conference in Kota Kinabalu is anything to go by, it appears which many foreigners in Sabah have been in receive of MyKads which were fraudulently obtained. The examples of Majid Kani as well as Salman Majid refer.
Strictly speaking not all foreigners in Sabah have been bootleg immigrants. Still, which does not forestall Sabahans from referring to all foreigners as bootleg immigrants.
Sabahans will direct which a sordid history of Putrajaya and/or their proxies, stooges as well as brute elements in their Nation upon MyKads be undone.
The many unfortunate underline of a revelations during a RCI is either a Sabah governments given 1994 have been legitimate.
No choosing is free of irregularities as well as even fraud. The courts have celebrated this time as well as again, not usually in this nation though elsewhere around a world, as well as have resisted a temptation to open a floodgates. They know where to pull a line.
The element timeless in law as a litmus exam is either electoral rascal was perpetuated to an border which affected a outcome. In which case, a choosing has to be ruled zero as well as void or a so-called hero nude of a results as well as a seat handed to his rival or nearest rival.
Many people still recollect Judge Harun Hashim declaring Umno wrong in a wake of a party's disputed 1987 presidential elections which Mahathir Mohamad won by 43 votes in a face of a stiff plea by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. The justice detected which 30 bootleg branches had voted for Mahathir.
Had a bootleg branches voted for Razaleigh, it would not have been probable for a justice to declare Umno wrong given a ineligible votes did not repudiate Mahathir victory.
The decider could have discounted a bootleg votes as well as handed a ! presiden cy to Razaleigh (left). But for reasons most appropriate well well known to him, he handed Mahathir victory by a backdoor.The male went upon to set up Umno Baru which disallowed a entrance of Razaleigh as well as his supporters, hijacked a aged Umno's MPs, hijacked a chairpersonship of a Barisan Nasional (BN) after Umno Baru was admitted as a member by a coalition, as well as hijacked a government.
Razaleigh was a budding apportion Malaysia never had. Mahathir became a budding apportion who never was.
In Sabah, it appears which MyKads were released to bootleg immigrants for a purpose of choosing by casting votes in a name of purebred electorate who were not well well known to vote. That's one side of a design rising during a ongoing RCI hearing.
Early bird catches a worm
It's not mostly which things went smoothly. Every election, a internal media carry complaints from electorate who lay which they were not allowed to vote upon a drift which they had already voted initial thing in a morning.
The RCI completes a puzzle. Someone, it seems, had voted upon behalf of a depressed voters.
If bootleg immigrants voted upon behalf of adults purebred in a electoral rolls, they could be pulling off a same fraud upon behalf of adults who had not purebred as voters. There's zero to forestall an bootleg registering as a voter with a MyKad underneath a name of an unregistered voter.Kota Kinabalu Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) arch Christina Liew had time as well as again raised a issue of a defunct upon a electoral rolls, quite a number some-more than 100 years old, choosing by casting votes in every election, though to no avail. The Election Commission (EC) brazenly spoken a Malaysian electoral rolls as a cleanest in a universe t! hough a fragment of evidence.
The logistics show which a electoral fraud could easily be perpetuated in seats with a tiny number of purebred electorate as well as seats which could go either way.
The allegedly rampant distribution of MyKads in Sabah could not be all about voting.
The RCI heard which over 80,000 refugees from a Philippines were released MyKads as well as another 36,000 have been upon a watchful list. This is a bizarre growth considering which Malaysia is not a signatory to a UN Convention upon Refugees as well as does not recognize refugees though terms them as mercantile migrants. In which case, what's a legal basis upon which a refugees were recognized as Malaysians?
Did a refugees run a gauntlet of securing entrance permits with current transport documents, prior to graduating to temporary proprietor status, permanent proprietor standing as well as naturalisation?
They could not have turn adults underneath operation of law or registration. It's not probable to secure entrance permits though current transport papers. The refugees, having fled a Philippines with ju! st a sh! irts upon their backs, could not have been carrying current transport writings which, in any case, cost an arm as well as a leg behind home.
Mahathir's belated acknowledgment which he gave MyKads to Filipino refugees has serve muddied a waters. Hitherto, he had denied which there were any serious problems with a distribution of MyKads in Sabah.
Sabahans will not accept a distribution of MyKads to a refugees by a federal government. Every Sabahan knows which foreigners in their nation can usually acquire MyKads upon a recommendation of a state supervision which must also be a initiating party. Sabah, similar to Sarawak, cannot be lumped together in a same category! as a st ates in a peninsula which participated in Malaysia in a collective as Malaya.Mahathir's take upon a Filipino refugees appears to be a red herring. The dimension of a MyKad materialisation in Sabah is far larger than a issue of refugees.
The materialisation of 'twice-born'
Many Indian sub-continentals too, similar to other bootleg immigrants in Sabah, possess MyKads underneath a "twice-born" phenomenon.
The cases in justice of Indian restaurant keeper Majid Kani as well as Pakistani runner seller Salman Majid - they can be Googled - most appropriate illustrate a twice innate materialisation in Sabah.
Majid Kani was innate in Tamil Nadu, India but! done out! a statutory declaration (SD) swearing which he was innate in Papar, along a west seashore of Sabah. He, along with 100 Indian sub-continentals, were released MyKads upon a strength of their SDs as well as subsequently obtained Malaysian passports. The figure 100 was referred to by Majid himself in Court.
The authorities nabbed him as well as hauled him to justice for allegedly obtaining Malaysian personal documents fraudulently. Apparently, a powers-that-be allegedly detected which he allegedly voted for a opposition, not once though twice.
Salman in his SD claimed which he was innate in Ranau, Sabah. The rest of his story appears to mirror Majid's.
Salman was nabbed by Immigration in Sepang after they were convinced which he did not sound Malaysian enough. There were gaping holes in his story.
Salman was freed by a justice after a Immigration Department as well as a National Registration Department declined, in a change of heart, to yield a justice with a required proof which Salman was a Pakistani masquerading as a Malaysian. Former Sabah arch apportion Harris Salleh testified in justice upon Salman's behalf which "he (Salman) had regularly been a constant BN supporter who voted for a statute coalition".
Most of a complaint Indonesian
Those i! n a know swear which a bulk of a MyKads in a hands of bootleg immigrants as well as other foreigners have been held by Indonesians who keep a low profile in a plantations. However, it's a Filipinos as well as Indian sub-continentals who hog a newspapers headlines for all a wrong reasons.
Foreigners have been authorised to acquire c! itizenshi! p in Malaysia though they would have to comply with a applicable supplies in a federal constitution.
If what is being pronounced during a on-going RCI conference in Kota Kinabalu is anything to go by, it appears which many foreigners in Sabah have been in receive of MyKads which were fraudulently obtained. The examples of Majid Kani as well as Salman Majid refer.
Strictly speaking not all foreigners in Sabah have been bootleg immigrants. Still, which does not forestall Sabahans from referring to all foreigners as bootleg immigrants.
Sabahans will direct which a sordid history of Putrajaya and/or their proxies, stooges as well as brute elements in their Nation upon MyKads be undone.
JOE FERNANDEZ is a freelance journalist formed in Sabah.
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